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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?
(a) Two hours.
(b) An hour.
(c) 10 minutes.
(d) 30 minutes.

2. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Irkutsk.
(c) Leningrad.
(d) St. Petersburg.

3. How did the Baltic republics win their independence?
(a) Stubornness.
(b) Execution of Party leaders.
(c) Violence.
(d) Intervention from the West.

4. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?
(a) Pedro Martinez.
(b) Roger Clemens.
(c) Robin Ventura.
(d) Gary Carter.

5. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?
(a) Destroyed their culture.
(b) Committed genocide.
(c) Helped them become farmers.
(d) Helped them become traders.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?

2. During what years had Lithuania been a free country?

3. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?

4. What sport was popular in the Soviet Union in the seventies?

5. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?

(see the answer key)

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